Leicester Branch Programme 2023-24

Chair: Annabelle Larsen leicesterha@gmail.com

 

All talks will be online 18.00-19.30. The heat of the Great Debate and the AGM will be held in person at DMU.

 

 

12^th September 2023- Natasha Stoyce, 'Leslie Joy Whitehead: Canada's forgotten female soldier of the First World War'. 

 

10th October 2023- Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami, University of Liverpool, 'English Travellers to India in the Seventeenth Century'.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/english-travellers-to-india-in-the-seventeenth-century-tickets-723993844077?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

14th November 2023- Dr Richard Goodrich, Fear and Loathing in the Heavens: The 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-fear-loathing-in-the-heavens-the-1910-return-of-halleys-comet-tickets-741711377697?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

9th January 2024 18.00-20.00 - The Great Debate, Leicester Heat. Young people will consider the question- Which historical place or person from your local area deserves greater recognition?

Venue: De Montfort University, Clephan Building Room 0.01

 

13th February 2024- Pawlet Brookes MBE, Executive Artistic Director, Serendipity. Serendipity: Black Arts and Heritage

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-serendipity-black-arts-and-heritage-tickets-741722671477?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

12th March 2024 - Dr Dean Irwin, ‘Gone but not Forgotten: ‘Jewish’ property in post Expulsion England’.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-gone-but-not-forgotten-jewish-property-in-post-expulsion-england-tickets-741725379577?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

14th May 2024 – Dr Rob Lutton, ‘Wycliffe, Lollardy and Leicester: origins, significance, and legacy’.

Free entry, venue TBC.

 

13 June 2024- Leicester Branch AGM.